Mobile apps and services

A while ago I started reading Russell Beatties Weblog so, obviously mobile applications caught my interest.

According to his post here 800 million mobiles were sold this year alone, (500 million with camera) – compare these values to 800 million internet PCs (absolute value)!

So it’s pretty much obvious where the next big thing of information technology is: Mobiles!

A lot of products and services got published lately, here a list of interesting and cool applications and services. The list is pretty much Nokia – especially Series 60 – biased since I own a Nokia 6680

Apps:

  • Geominder is one of the most innovative applications I found! It reminds you at a specific location instead at a specific time! Cool idea – it doesn’t even need GPS.
  • Nokia Sensor it’s a nice demo for Bluetooth applications. While reading their intro I thought of a small Webserver with my personal homepage available via Bluetooth – nice idea!
  • KHTML (Safari) Browser for Series 60 3rd ed. mobiles I’m pretty jealous of the 3rd edition of the Series 60 mobiles (mine is a 2nd ed.), but the browser is so cool – you have to watch the demo.
  • Nokias Mobile Search is a simple meta search engine.
  • There is even a Python implementation available!
  • Romeo is a plugable OS X Application. It allows controlling your Mac via a compatible Bluetooth enabled phone – you can also define actions if you come into Bluetooth availability or leave it (eg start playing your favorite music).
  • Virgin Radio free for your 3G phone! I wish data would not be that expensive (1,5 Euro per Megabyte – crazy!) now with the ability to use bluetooth as internet connection it’s a semi mobile radio :-).
  • You don’t like these Java games? Me too, so go out and grab a GameBoy emulator :-) (somewhere is a free version of this emulator, but I couldn’t find it – only it’s source ).
  • Now something completely useless (or is it?): a real HTTP Server for your mobile! Incredible!

Here is a larger list of free mobile apps.

Services:

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The future is so obviously in mobiles, why the hell are so many startups still screwing around on the desktop? Morons. —Russell Beattie

posted in January 2006 on mobile apps

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